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A student gave this to me the week before schools

A student gave this to me the week before schools shut down last March. We had no idea what was coming. I haven’t taught students in person since then. I’m posting again because I need all the motivation to finish this school year teaching online. I really miss teaching kids in person. That’s all.

⬇️ Easy Math Game Idea -students spread out

⬇️ Easy Math Game Idea

-students spread out their pattern blocks and the teacher does the same
-teacher describes a shape or shapes (ex. Find a shape with four sides, or find the blue rhombus, or hold up shapes that make 7 sides all together)
- students / teacher hold up the shape or shapes that were described.
- if a student holds it up first, the class gets a point / if I hold it up first, the teacher gets a point.

My students have loved playing this game. I like that it keeps them engaged, and that I get some valuable info about what my students know. Also, you should know that you’re playing against the entire class. The first time we played, I took it pretty easy on them and slowly grabbed the shapes. The next time, they actually beat me! They were so fast! 🤣

⛸ Ice Breaker is definitely a book you’ll want

⛸ Ice Breaker is definitely a book you’ll want to share with your students. Ice Breaker tells the story of Mabel Fairbanks who broke down color barriers in figure skating. Despite Mabel’s talent and hard work, she was still denied the opportunity to compete for an Olympic gold medal because of the color of her skin. Mabel became a coach, mentor, and advocate for equality in skating. She was the first Black women to be inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

Grateful for this guy today, and every day! 💗 W

Grateful for this guy today, and every day! 💗 We “celebrated” with Chuy’s last night 🌮 and 🍕 for lunch today. We might go crazy and get 🍦 tonight. I mean Valentine’s Day is about the food right?!

💗❤️ so many possibilities! We explored this

💗❤️ so many possibilities! We explored this math problem in one of our live Meets today. Students worked independently and shared out at the end. We’ve been working hard to challenge our brains 🧠 and solve these types of problems in multiple ways. Some students were working on counting one to one, others were working on persevering and working the entire time, and others were working on writing number sentences.

💗We are keeping Valentine’s Day super simple

💗We are keeping Valentine’s Day super simple for online learning. Students are creating one Valentine for the entire class with whatever materials they have at home. I took some screenshots of pictures from Google for inspiration, but students can get as creative as they’d like! When they’re finished, they’ll post them to Padlet, and we’ll read them as a class the next day. I think it will still be a pretty special day!

Last Friday we celebrated the 100th Day of School

Last Friday we celebrated the 100th Day of School online! Here are a few activities from our day!
-Students brainstormed 100 exercises... (yes 10 cartwheels 🤸‍♀️😳 and still feeling it)
-100 day hats and colored 10 groups of ten colors
-Students made a creation out of the numbers 100 and wrote about it
-Students used foods from their home of count out their own 100 day snack mix
-We colored and read!
It was a good day! 💗

We’ve been learning about the life of Mae Jemiso

We’ve been learning about the life of Mae Jemison who was the first Black woman to travel to space. Students were fascinated to learn that Mae was in space for 8 days, that she’s had many other jobs besides being an astronaut, and that she fluently speaks several languages. We read Mae Among The Stars , as well as Scholastic’s Digital Let’s Find Out February issue. There are also several lesson extensions/activities on the Let’s Find Out website, like the Name Rockets we created today.

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